The Transformation Of War
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Transformation Of War
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Author : Martin Van Creveld
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2009-11-24
Transformation Of War written by Martin Van Creveld and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-11-24 with History categories.
At a time when unprecedented change in international affairs is forcing governments, citizens, and armed forces everywhere to re-assess the question of whether military solutions to political problems are possible any longer, Martin van Creveld has written an audacious searching examination of the nature of war and of its radical transformation in our own time. For 200 years, military theory and strategy have been guided by the Clausewitzian assumption that war is rational - a reflection of national interest and an extension of politics by other means. However, van Creveld argues, the overwhelming pattern of conflict in the post-1945 world no longer yields fully to rational analysis. In fact, strategic planning based on such calculations is, and will continue to be, unrelated to current realities. Small-scale military eruptions around the globe have demonstrated new forms of warfare with a different cast of characters - guerilla armies, terrorists, and bandits - pursuing diverse goals by violent means with the most primitive to the most sophisticated weapons. Although these warriors and their tactics testify to the end of conventional war as we've known it, the public and the military in the developed world continue to contemplate organized violence as conflict between the super powers. At this moment, armed conflicts of the type van Creveld describes are occurring throughout the world. From Lebanon to Cambodia, from Sri Lanka and the Philippines to El Salvador, the Persian Gulf, and the strife-torn nations of Eastern Europe, violent confrontations confirm a new model of warfare in which tribal, ethnic, and religious factions do battle without high-tech weapons or state-supported armies and resources. This low-intensity conflict challenges existing distinctions between civilian and solder, individual crime and organized violence, terrorism and war. In the present global atmosphere, practices that for three centuries have been considered uncivilized, such as capturing civilians or even entire communities for ransom, have begun to reappear. Pursuing bold and provocative paths of inquiry, van Creveld posits the inadequacies of our most basic ideas as to who fights wars and why and broaches the inevitability of man's need to "play" at war. In turn brilliant and infuriating, this challenge to our thinking and planning current and future military encounters is one of the most important books on war we are likely to read in our lifetime.
The Transformation Of War
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Author : Jean Lambert Alphonse Colin
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1912
The Transformation Of War written by Jean Lambert Alphonse Colin and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1912 with Military art and science categories.
The Changing Face Of War
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Author : Martin Van Creveld
language : en
Publisher: Random House Digital, Inc.
Release Date : 2006
The Changing Face Of War written by Martin Van Creveld and has been published by Random House Digital, Inc. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with History categories.
A provocative look at how war has changed over the course of the past century reveals how twentieth-century warfare evolved from its historical predecessors, as well as what terrorism and other modern-day phenomena mean in terms of the future of war. 35,000 first printing.
More On War
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Author : Martin Van Creveld
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2017
More On War written by Martin Van Creveld and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017 with History categories.
"War is the most important thing in the world', writes Martin van Creveld, one of the world's best-known experts on military history and strategy.The survival of every country, government, and individual is ultimately dependent on war - or the ability to wage it in self-defence. That is why, though it may come but once in a hundred years, it must be prepared for every day. When it is too late - when the bodies lie stiff and people weep overthem - those in charge have failed in their duty.Nevertheless, in spite of the centrality of war to human history and culture, there has for long been no modern attempt to provide a replacement for the classics on war and strategy, Sun Tzu's The Art of War, dating from the 5th or 6th century BC, and Carl von Clausewitz's On War, written in theaftermath of the Napoleonic Wars.What is needed is a modern, comprehensive, easy to read and understand theory of war for the 21st century that could serve as a replacement for these classic texts. The purpose of the present book is to provide just such a theory.
Media Power And The Transformation Of War
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Author : Chiara de Franco
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2012-10-10
Media Power And The Transformation Of War written by Chiara de Franco and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-10-10 with Social Science categories.
Do the news media have any role in the transformation of war and warfare? Focusing on television, this book argues that the news media alters the cognitive and strategic environment of the actors of war and politics and therefore changes the way these interact with one another.
Surrogate Warfare
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Author : Andreas Krieg
language : en
Publisher: Georgetown University Press
Release Date : 2019-06-01
Surrogate Warfare written by Andreas Krieg and has been published by Georgetown University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-06-01 with Political Science categories.
Surrogate Warfare explores the emerging phenomenon of “surrogate warfare” in twenty-first century conflict. The popular notion of war is that it is fought en masse by the people of one side versus the other. But the reality today is that both state and non-state actors are increasingly looking to shift the burdens of war to surrogates. Surrogate warfare describes a patron's outsourcing of the strategic, operational, or tactical burdens of warfare, in whole or in part, to human and/or technological substitutes in order to minimize the costs of war. This phenomenon ranges from arming rebel groups, to the use of armed drones, to cyber propaganda. Krieg and Rickli bring old, related practices such as war by mercenary or proxy under this new overarching concept. Apart from analyzing the underlying sociopolitical drivers that trigger patrons to substitute or supplement military action, this book looks at the intrinsic trade-offs between substitutions and control that shapes the relationship between patron and surrogate. Surrogate Warfare will be essential reading for anyone studying contemporary conflict.
War And The Transformation Of Global Politics
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Author : V. Jabri
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2007-01-31
War And The Transformation Of Global Politics written by V. Jabri and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-01-31 with Political Science categories.
Drawing on critical social and political thought, the book explores the implications, arguing that late modern wars wars, often referred to as 'liberal', may be interpreted as perpetuating forms of exclusion and domination that render war a tool of control now articulated in global terms.
Transformation Of War
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Author : Jean Lambert Alphonse 1884 Colin
language : en
Publisher: Wentworth Press
Release Date : 2016-08-27
Transformation Of War written by Jean Lambert Alphonse 1884 Colin and has been published by Wentworth Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-08-27 with History categories.
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The Culture Of War
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Author : Martin Van Creveld
language : en
Publisher: Presidio Press
Release Date : 2008
The Culture Of War written by Martin Van Creveld and has been published by Presidio Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with History categories.
A renowned military historian explores the concept of the culture of war that details the human fascination with the art of war, describing such facets of the phenomenon as war games, literature, ceremonies, customs, art, literature, and other examples. 15,000 first printing.
The Transformations Of War
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Author : Jean-Lambert-Alphonse Colin
language : en
Publisher: Greenwood
Release Date : 1977
The Transformations Of War written by Jean-Lambert-Alphonse Colin and has been published by Greenwood this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1977 with Military art and science categories.